Ozarks Technical
Community College
Public Community College in Springfield, MO. Six-year graduation rate 33%. Median 10-year earnings $36,455.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $36,455, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Completion is the weak point: 33% graduate within six years. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,453.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 33% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 33% graduate within six years. Retention is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. Transfer-out runs to 13% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 18:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 8,339 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $8,042 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($6,217 versus $9,854), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 77% of students at an average of $5,056. Only 24% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 2,025 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $6,217 |
| $30–48k | $6,263 |
| $48–75k | $7,766 |
| $75–110k | $8,411 |
| $110k+ | $9,854 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,028 of these 8,339 students, totalling $9,540,385 — an average of $4,704 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Greene County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)